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Photos: Galina Kerimova/DR

Photos: Galina Kerimova/DR

An air, a posture, an outfit, Galina Kerimova has presence. Both classic and fashion, this beautiful Hong Kong woman has an unequalled talent for drawing. His artistic love at first sight arose for many reasons: travel, landscapes, urbanism and people. Inspirations that give him a real thirst for drawing.
This native of Khabarovsk in the Russian Far East then tries to create her own universe with sketches of landscapes, portraits whose line leaves no doubt to her talent. Galina loves sharing, a value perceived as recognition, for this prolific artist. If ten minutes is enough to scribble a landscape, in pencil, his perfect dexterity is in correlation with his feeling. Its engine remains above all pleasure. His constant inspiration makes it possible to capture unique moments. Curious and welcoming, her approach is part of a desire for discovery, open-mindedness and dissemination. These works highlight his adopted city, his travel desires and his favorites. Galina’s superb drawings provoke emotion at first glance. They make me want to travel to discover all those hidden beauties that the designer was able to detect at random from an encounter: „When something inspires me, I feel vibrations that circulate through me with such energy that my work reaps all the fruits“. Galina Kerimova is a talented „designer“ artist with an atypical background. She began drawing objects and landscapes at a very young age. Despite her precociousness in drawing (6 years) nothing predestined her to a career as an artist, at least not her academic career. This preoccupation for beauty and design will mark the eye of this talented girl and find her place as an illustrator in a local newspaper in Khabarovsk in Russia at the age of 16. A first job that recognizes his passion as well as his aptitudes and that led him little by little to continue in this direction. During her studies, she did a few small food jobs as a model or nail manicure artist before having desires, so that at 22, she decided to continue her studies in northern China in Harbin. International art studies followed by a school where she teaches drawing classeswhich gave him an opportunity to discover China for 6 years, before settling permanently in Hong Kong. At 28, she worked in marketing and communications for a large local hotel, while devoting herself to her sin that never left her.

An addiction always present

Today, Galina Kerimova is an accomplished and passionate artist, never short of ideas, who expresses herself in several languages: English, Russian, French and…Chinese. It is therefore a crossbreeding of Russian, Chinese and European cultures. Galina has recently created her own marketing and consulting company, an exciting and interesting job that allows her to fly on her own, without abandoning her frenzy for drawing. As soon as she gets the chance, this fashion, photography and sports (yoga she practices) enthusiast starts drawing, sketching the daily life of her adopted city which gives her a lot of material. Using pencils for her landscapes and other varied subjects where she demonstrates an exacerbated sensitivity. Under his brushes, the city of Hong Kong takes on a timeless dimension. Galina’s work as a draftsman is linked to an approach to the surrounding space through the promenade: „I have always enjoyed walking and letting myself be carried away by the perspectives, by the chance of a street, or a garden, at the corner of a square or an avenue. There are never a lack of surprises and the drawings get ready in my head along the way. With the help of a pencil or brush, she likes to tell all the particularities of a landscape, in its broad lines as in its small details and by writing them in a vast visual field, sometimes at 180 degrees. Through perspective, by looking at the drawing, one enters almost a three-dimensional universe.
What is essential for this beautiful illustrator is her love of drawing, which she communicates through colour, among other things. Galina’s artistic work expresses a thirst to share an authentic intimacy with the subjects she presents with great respect and a certain delicacy.